Dawn at the Pyramids. Egypt is celebrating 7,000 years of civilisation. But if you are a stray dog in the tourist area, you can expect a barbaric end.
They rarely die instantly and many reach the dump still alive. It is all kept well away from the tourists. But Egypt is not alone.
First tied up and soaked, here in India a macabre electrified cage terminates the dogs nobody wants.
Meanwhile in Russia, the stray catchers are on commission. Thousands of pet dogs and cats have also disappeared and each carcass is sold for fur.
This summer millions of Britons will travel the world and thousands will complain of dirty stray dogs.
"It certainly put me off," said one British holidaymaker we met. "I certainly wouldn't come back with a young family and children and expect them to play on the beach with dogs that are running around looking for scraps of food."
The man was carrying stones to frighten off any unwanted attention from the animals. "It's not ideal, it's more of a threat," he conceded.
But it is the threat to custom that leads hotel owners to destroy the dogs. In Thailand, thousands of beach dogs are killed with rat poison.
"They go around, usually at about two in the morning and lay the bait," said a local animal welfare worker. "They come back about half an hour later and pick up these convulsed dogs, in absolute agony, off the streets. They throw them in a truck and take them off to the tip."
This is the island of Phuket, one of the most popular in Thailand. Like so many other places, for years they have led a deadly and brutal battle against the dogs that call it home.
Now it seems death is not the only option.
Stray dogs and an Englishman with a blowpipe. Eric and his wife retired here and are part of PAWS - Phuket Animal Welfare Society.
The only alternative to culling is to tranquillise and then sterilise the dogs. They have now done more than 3,000 operations. The cycle of misery brought about by overpopulation is being broken, albeit slowly.
"There isn't enough of us to try and do the amount of work we need to be doing, but we can just try our best to do what we can to maintain the wellbeing and the health of the animals," said PAWS activist Linda.
Fewer numbers and better care reduces illnesses like mange, an ugly disease that often horrifies tourists and prompts a cull.
When we visited, the PAWS team were trying to convince a local boss to donate food.
Today it is chicken but PAWS know other businesses - like a crocodile farm we visited - want the dogs. "They will pay five baht for a puppy, obviously to feed the crocodiles," Linda tells us.
But Linda can not save them all. She has found a dog so sick with cancer it needs to be put down. Thai Buddhists will not kill - poisoning, they claim, is the dog's choice by taking the bait.
But now she needs someone to deliberately take a life. Only one island vet will even consider it. And it does not make it any easier when he agrees.
Many Thai's believe that humans who live bad lives come back as dogs. PAWS is their saviour.
